personally i just want to post to my friends and read my friends’ posts, and maybe find other people to connect with who could be friends. i don’t want Larger Debate. i don’t want to be in a marketplace of ideas. i don’t want algorithms or ads. i just want to be able to talk to my friends - ThreadSky

modernistwitch.bsky.social • 18 days ago

personally i just want to post to my friends and read my friends’ posts, and maybe find other people to connect with who could be friends. i don’t want Larger Debate. i don’t want to be in a marketplace of ideas. i don’t want algorithms or ads. i just want to be able to talk to my friends

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gropeforluna.bsky.social•18 days ago

"i'm here to learn!" new followers get the immediate block

gropeforluna.bsky.social•18 days ago

the person who says this is going to follow you for a week at most before quote tweeting something mundane or ironic you said with the caption "LISTEN TO [whatever identity they've reduced you to]!!!" and getting a lot of weirdos in your replies

jaypee.bsky.social•18 days ago

That's why i make it clear that my primary irreducible identity is "dipshit"

jaypee.bsky.social•18 days ago

I did get caught up in some fuckhead's blue wave starter pack. I blocked most of those follows but i got too lazy to scrub out my entire list

modernistwitch.bsky.social•18 days ago

yeah i try to block all the blue wave people who follow me but i’m sure some have slipped through

aoife.bsky.social•18 days ago

but is the validation of your friends really better than the validation of a bunch of people you don't know and don't give a shit about?

ratchetology.bsky.social•17 days ago

i dont want to spend half my time clicking show less like this and blocking large breasted anime

same with new large breasted "followers"

keepautismweird.bsky.social•18 days ago

Social media: the Facebook Marketplace of ideas

eversonpoe.bsky.social•18 days ago

i feel like a lot of people would suggest discord for that purpose, but the conversational format is COMPLETELY different than on a site like this, and i personally don't like it, because you're not posting, you're messaging

pixelfish.bsky.social•18 days ago

Threads on Discord work super differently too.

I honestly don’t mind it for smaller groups of up to 2 dozen or so people, but once it gets in the hundreds…hoo boy.

Weird bc I used to be just fine on IRC.

modernistwitch.bsky.social•18 days ago

yeah i see discord as essentially a group chat and that’s fine but not posting

eversonpoe.bsky.social•18 days ago

exactly! and i despise the functionality of the app in so many ways

modernistwitch.bsky.social•18 days ago

agreed, it is really annoying to use

pixelfish.bsky.social•18 days ago

So hard to find posts again.

cultofdog.com•18 days ago

And I want to see it in unfiltered, chronological order. It's not that complicated!

modernistwitch.bsky.social•18 days ago

yes!!

petegain.es•18 days ago

It's like being at a party/BBQ at a mutual friends' house, you've got the people you KNOW, acquaintances you know but met through the mutual friends, and then the people you occasionally see around at Mariano's or other BBQs and say hi to but don't actually know outside of those mutuals.

mfelps.bsky.social•17 days ago

And at this BBQ there's a guy who won't stop insisting you should invite some people that hate you and some other people that want to kill you, and if you don't it's a terrible BBQ.

But they still won't leave.

petegain.es•18 days ago

In any of these categories I would not walk up to any of these people and start screaming about [whatever topic they're on about today].

If you wouldn't say it standing around your friends' kitchen counter with a drink in your hand, why are you screaming at randos here about it

modernistwitch.bsky.social•18 days ago

exactly! i LIKE that vibe

ranryu.bsky.social•18 days ago

That's what messaging apps are for, not social media

mikemuth.bsky.social•18 days ago

Sounds like Usenet or Delphi Forums. Or, for that matter, what you can do with Facebook using groups and privacy settings.

miriamcb.bsky.social•18 days ago

went over to discover feed this morning, horrified and went back to mutuals almost immediately

modernistwitch.bsky.social•18 days ago

whenever i hit discover by accident it’s always a nightmare

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